netdev - [PATCH 2/2] ieee802154: ca8210: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ca8210_skb

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 08:14:38 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linuxdev@...coda.com, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Aring <aar@...gutronix.de>,
        Harry Morris <h.morris@...coda.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@....samsung.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ieee802154: ca8210: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation in ca8210_skb_rx()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 08:03:17 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
index 25ed11bb5ed3..f6df75e80a60 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
@@ -1808,10 +1808,9 @@ static int ca8210_skb_rx(
 
 	/* Allocate mtu size buffer for every rx packet */
 	skb = dev_alloc_skb(IEEE802154_MTU + sizeof(hdr));
-	if (!skb) {
-		dev_crit(&priv->spi->dev, "dev_alloc_skb failed\n");
+	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	skb_reserve(skb, sizeof(hdr));
 
 	msdulen = data_ind[22]; /* msdu_length */
-- 
2.13.0